 |  A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays Bob Brannan,
Johnson County Community College
Feature Summary- Active and Collaborative: A Writer's Workshop provides more opportunities
for student writing than any other text.
- Introductory Price: To help launch A Writer's Workshop, we are offering
the text at an aggressive price $8-$13 below the competition.
- Twenty for $20: A Writer's Workshop can be customized to suit the specific
needs of any syllabus or course of study. Instructors can choose any 20 of
the thirty chapters in the text and build their own book for just $20.00 (net).
- Student Models: Every assignment chapter offers 2 to 3 student samples with
extensive, focused apparatus, in addition to an annotated student sample in
4 drafts.
- Balance of Paragraph/Essay Coverage: The text is divided roughly 60/40 between
paragraph and essay, with enough assignments in each unit to allow an instructor
to teach mostly paragraph, mostly essay, or balance the two.
- Making the Most of Reading: No other developmental writing text pays as
much attention to effective reading technique as A Writer's Workshop. Chapter
2 integrates the reading and writing processes to help students use the textbook
more effectively. Throughout the book, chapter introductions, summaries, prereading
and postreading activities, and essay analysis questions help students build
the skills necessary to become critical readers.
- Taking Essay Exams: This eminently practical chapter puts the skills learned
in the paragraph and essay units to work. Additionally, there is a strong
emphasis on concise but well-developed writing and sustained focus on audience
and purpose, complete with specific, detailed examples and thorough explanation.
- Readings: Fourteen professional readings, appropriate to the course in length
and complexity, model key principles introduced in the assignment chapters.
- Working with Your Computer (Appendix 1): No other text on the market includes
this kind of illustrated overview of word-processing procedures-a simplified,
practical user's manual-to help students with the many questions they ask
their instructors in class: "How do I double space, insert page numbers,
spell check, word count. . . ?"
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